In case you hadn’t noticed, it has somehow become uncool to sound like you know what you’re talking about? Or believe strongly in what you’re saying? Invisible question marks and parenthetical (you know?)’s have been attaching themselves to the ends of our sentences? Even when those sentences aren’t, like, questions? You know?
Declarative sentences—so-‐called because they used to, like, DECLARE things to be true, okay, as opposed to other things are, like, totally, you know, not— have been infected by a totally hip and tragically cool interrogative tone? You know? Like, don’t think I’m uncool just because I’ve noticed this; this is just like the word on the street, you know? It’s like what I’ve heard? I have nothing personally invested in my own opinions, okay? I’m just inviting you to join me in my uncertainty?
What has happened to our conviction? Where are the limbs out on which we once walked? Have they been, like, chopped down with the rest of the rain forest? Or do we have, like, nothing to say? Has society become so, like, totally . . . I mean absolutely . . . You know? That we’ve just gotten to the point where it’s just, like . . . whatever!
And so actually our disarticulation . . . ness is just a clever sort of . . . thing to disguise the fact that we’ve become the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since . . . you know, a long, long time ago!
I entreat you, I implore you, I exhort you, I challenge you: To speak with conviction.
To say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination with which you believe it. Because contrary to the wisdom of the bumper sticker, it is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY. You have to speak with it, too.
The overall meaning of the poem is that a lot of people use the words ‘like’ ‘whatever’ ‘you know’ without realising it. I chose this poem because I really could connect to it. I could do that because I say ‘like’ a lot without realising or meaning to say it. I also chose this poem because once I watched the first time I knew exactly what he was talking about and I thought it was a little funny. One poetic device I found in the poem was really repetitive with the words like, whatever and you know. I think he did that because those three word are very important to the poem. Another poetic device in this poem is Onomatopoeia. In the poem it doesn’t say it but when he is speaking the poem he says “Has this society become so filled with these conflicting feelings of nyeahe. ” Which means to me that society now has feelings that aren't good and you can’t really describe them, and that is said by the word nyeahe. Good ideas, watch out for sentence structure. Proof read carefully. 27/36
In case you hadn’t noticed,
it has somehow become uncool
to sound like you know what you’re talking about?
Or believe strongly in what you’re saying?
Invisible question marks and parenthetical (you know?)’s
have been attaching themselves to the ends of our sentences?
Even when those sentences aren’t, like, questions? You know?
Declarative sentences—so-‐called
because they used to, like, DECLARE things to be true, okay,
as opposed to other things are, like, totally, you know, not—
have been infected by a totally hip
and tragically cool interrogative tone? You know?
Like, don’t think I’m uncool just because I’ve noticed this;
this is just like the word on the street, you know?
It’s like what I’ve heard?
I have nothing personally invested in my own opinions, okay?
I’m just inviting you to join me in my uncertainty?
What has happened to our conviction?
Where are the limbs out on which we once walked?
Have they been, like, chopped down
with the rest of the rain forest?
Or do we have, like, nothing to say?
Has society become so, like, totally . . .
I mean absolutely . . . You know?
That we’ve just gotten to the point where it’s just, like . . .
whatever!
And so actually our disarticulation . . . ness
is just a clever sort of . . . thing
to disguise the fact that we’ve become
the most aggressively inarticulate generation
to come along since . . .
you know, a long, long time ago!
I entreat you, I implore you, I exhort you,
I challenge you: To speak with conviction.
To say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks
the determination with which you believe it.
Because contrary to the wisdom of the bumper sticker,
it is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY.
You have to speak with it, too.
The overall meaning of the poem is that a lot of people use the words ‘like’ ‘whatever’ ‘you know’ without realising it. I chose this poem because I really could connect to it. I could do that because I say ‘like’ a lot without realising or meaning to say it. I also chose this poem because once I watched the first time I knew exactly what he was talking about and I thought it was a little funny. One poetic device I found in the poem was really repetitive with the words like, whatever and you know. I think he did that because those three word are very important to the poem. Another poetic device in this poem is Onomatopoeia. In the poem it doesn’t say it but when he is speaking the poem he says “Has this society become so filled with these conflicting feelings of nyeahe. ” Which means to me that society now has feelings that aren't good and you can’t really describe them, and that is said by the word nyeahe.
Good ideas, watch out for sentence structure. Proof read carefully.
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